MFT Practice Test With Instant result [40 items]

MFT Exam

The Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards (AMFTRB) offers the Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) examination for people who are working toward obtaining a license or certification. Since people who would like to obtain these certifications have many different types of academic experiences, the test is meant to be a standard way to find out if the candidate knows enough to operate a practice at a beginner level. The MFT exam is also a way to make sure the evaluation is the same among the different states. Each candidate has to meet specific academic and work eligibility requirements before taking this test.

Content for the MFT examination is broken down as follows:

The practice of marital and family therapy – 22.5%

Assessing, hypothesizing and diagnosing – 22.5%

Designing and conducting treatment – 32.5%

Evaluating ongoing process and terminating treatment – 7.5%

Maintaining ethical, legal and professional standards – 15%

This objective-based assessment is formed with 200 multiple-choice items. Candidates are given four hours to finish. Since the score is based on how many answers are right, it is better to try to answer every question. Each state board has its own standard for the MFT exam score needed to pass.

MFT Practice Test With Instant result

Following are 40 free MFT practice test questions with instant result on the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards (AMFTRB) Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) examination.

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Forty practice questions in this free MFT practice test are in multiple-choice questions, same as the official examination, and are divided into two sections, with 20 questions each section.

Take this free MFT practice test to see what types of questions appear on a Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) examination.

MFT Exam Practice Questions

Haley: Techniques

directive (directive or paradoxical) given as homework. Create first a strong executive subsystem. the system needs to change in order for the changes to be enduring

directive, active, and assume full responsibility for change

Haley is more directive. MRI see their clients as customers

non directive, curious, trust the family to find its own solution, neutrality

Strategic: Unit of treatment?

the family and therapist firt engage in the battle for structure the therapist must win -- followed by the battle for initiative; the client system must win.

craziness; turn the heat on; increase anxiety as opposed to Bowen who seeks to decrease it. Works with a co-therapist.

the entire family. see one or more family members as opposed to Structural who see the whole family.

the whole family, althought parts of the family may be seen according to the utility of that maneuver

Experiential: What is an healthy family?

Haley is more directive. MRI see their clients as customers

foster the individual growth, freedom of action, and open expressionof affect of its members.

Joining, accommodating, and reframing, enactment

Bowen and Whitaker. The Milan did to, but a to a lesser extend.

Milan: Techniques?

Social stage; problem stage; interaction; goal-setting; task setting.

Bowen and Whitaker. The Milan did to, but a to a lesser extend.

the faulty solution becomes the problem and is maintained by positive feedback loops

the cycle of the family's interations and interrupts the cycle by the use of straightforward or paradoxical directive and other techniaues: prescribing the symptom, therapeutic double binds, ordeal, and reframe.

the faulty solution becomes the problem and is maintained by positive feedback loops

increase members's sense of belongingness and creativity and to foster the freedom to individuate

Structure: Techniques

Milan group, Minuchin, Whitaker, and Satir

Strategic is brief - Trans: longer

Joining, accommodating, and reframing, enactment

positive and negative feedback loops

Structure: Goal of therapy

non directive, curious, trust the family to find its own solution, neutrality

the cycle of the family's interations and interrupts the cycle by the use of straightforward or paradoxical directive and other techniaues: prescribing the symptom, therapeutic double binds, ordeal, and reframe.

to restructure the family so that the boundaries ae clear and a functional hierarchy is restored or built

Strategic: What does the therapist assess?

the family and therapist firt engage in the battle for structure the therapist must win -- followed by the battle for initiative; the client system must win.

arise when the family's old epistemology no longer fits the current circumstance. the family becomes caught up in a power struggle or dirty game

the cycle of the family's interations and interrupts the cycle by the use of straightforward or paradoxical directive and other techniaues: prescribing the symptom, therapeutic double binds, ordeal, and reframe.

if the family will not include several generations. believe that the whole system must participate.

Whitaker: Battle for structure vs Power?

the cycle of the family's interations and interrupts the cycle by the use of straightforward or paradoxical directive and other techniaues: prescribing the symptom, therapeutic double binds, ordeal, and reframe.

the family and therapist firt engage in the battle for structure the therapist must win -- followed by the battle for initiative; the client system must win.

The consequence of a faulty family structure. emmeshed/disengaged

the entire family. see one or more family members as opposed to Structural who see the whole family.

Whitaker: What is a dysfunctioning family?

directive, active, and assume full responsibility for change

the faulty solution becomes the problem and is maintained by positive feedback loops

arise when spouses become stuck in the struggle over whose family of origin culture will dominate or when families cannot accommodate to the demands of life-cycle phases

arise when the family's old epistemology no longer fits the current circumstance. the family becomes caught up in a power struggle or dirty game

Haley: What is a functional family?

to restructure the family so that the boundaries ae clear and a functional hierarchy is restored or built